WorldatWork Education

Analyzing and Automating Rewards Data with Excel Pivots and Macros

A Skill-Building Course with Compensation, Excel Expert Dianne Auld

Spend less time formatting data and more time analyzing and evaluating it. Join Excel rock star Dianne Auld as she demonstrates several tips for routine data formatting and calculations in this two-hour virtual classroom. Learn how to create pivot tables and charts to efficiently summarize large data sets, and add interactive tools to allow for more robust analysis. Then watch Dianne create a macro to automate repetitive tasks, allowing more time to focus on utilizing data rather than creating it. After this class, you will know how to:

Create interactive pivot tables quickly and easily

Write and run a macro to automate repetitive tasks

Extra value! Take home session files and instructions on how to replicate the functions demonstrated.

Model the impact of different base pay increases per level in the organization on average comparative ratios to market and on cost of increase.

Use pivot tables to count, sum or average data

Use the report filter to create one pivot table per manager or division

Use the pivot table to analyze salary or age or years of service distribution

Create pivot charts

Use slicers to make them interactive for very effective dashboards

Section 2 — Write Macros to Automate Frequent Tasks

Modeling the impact of different eligibility levels, share allocation numbers and stock price on cost of stock granted, cost of stock granted as a percent of base pay and shares granted as a percentage of shares outstanding.

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Dianne Auld
| CCP, GRP, CSCP, WLCP

Excel Expert Instructor Auld Compensation Consulting

Dianne Auld, CCP, GRP, CSCP, WLCP owns a consulting practice, Auld Compensation Consulting, in Cape Town, South Africa. She consults a wide range of organizations across Africa and the Middle East in all areas of total rewards. She has developed and taught courses in Africa, the Middle East, Europe, and the United States.

Dianne is also a faculty member at WorldatWork and a reviewer for the WorldatWork Journal. Well respected and known as an expert in the compensation field and Excel, Dianne's skills and expertise are in high demand. In fact, her sessions at the WorldatWork Total Rewards Conference and Exhibition typically fill to capacity. Diane has partnered with WorldatWork to develop several educational products to assist compensation professionals with their day-to-day tasks in Excel, including "Pay Structures - Develop a Framework from Start to Finish," "Excel Skills for Compensation Professionals," "Advanced Excel Skills for Compensation Professionals," "Excel Tips for Compensation Professionals," and "Tackling Compensation's What If Questions Using Excel".